E299: Social Drinking: Drinking to Fit In
Sober Powered: The Neuroscience of Being Sober
Gillian Tietz, MS, CPRC
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Social drinking feels harmless. Everybody does it, right? There's a difference, though, |
| 0:05.7 | between using alcohol to socialize and using it to force fitting in and being comfortable. |
| 0:13.4 | In this episode, you'll learn more about the motive of drinking to socialize and conform, |
| 0:19.5 | how that makes it difficult to quit drinking, and some shifts |
| 0:23.5 | that you can make in sobriety to make socializing easier. And before we dig in, I'd like to take a |
| 0:29.1 | moment to thank my sponsors who made this episode possible. When I quit drinking, I didn't have the |
| 0:35.4 | mental bandwidth to keep my house clean on top of trying |
| 0:38.8 | to learn how to function like a normal person and feel my emotions. So I had all the shame build |
| 0:44.5 | up for years about the state of my house. When we moved two years ago, I used it as a fresh start to |
| 0:50.6 | keep my new house clean, and I've done that with the help of house cleaners. They hold |
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